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The last recorded executions were in 1706.

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A person who practice magic, especially black magic, and use spell to harm people.

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The first major series of witchcraft was North Berwick where King James VI is a victim and an investigator.

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Since interested in witchcraft, James VI then defence witch- hunting which limit the prosecutions.

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75% of the accused were women

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James VI wrote the Daemonologie, a tract that opposed the practice of witchcraft and which provided background material for Shakespeare's Tragedy of Macbeth, which contains probably the most famous literary depiction of Scottish witches

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Only 4% of the accused witches were believe that they can cure which indicate that the rest are mostly evil.

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Witch trials was well known as the judicial proceedings in Scotland between the early sixteenth century and the mid-eighteenth century concerned with crimes of witchcraft.

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An estimate of 4,000 to 6,000 people tried for the witchcraft mostly from Scottish Lowlands.

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More than 1,500 persons were executed; most were strangled and then burned

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The last trial was held in the court of a sheriff-depute at Dornoch in 1727

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Many causes have been suggested for the hunts, including economic distress, changing attitudes to women, the rise of a "godly state", the inquisitorial Scottish judicial system, the widespread use of judicial torture, the role of the local kirk, decentralised justice and the prevalence of the idea of the diabolic pact.